Luxury Beijing development offers villas complete with wives

In the world’s most extraordinary ‘buy one get one free’ offer, am exclusive development in Beijing is offering its luxury properties complete with wives and even dowries.

The Ecological Bay project’s owners, possibly concerned by a drop in sales due to the world recession, have come up with a tempting BOGOF offer – buy a home and choose a wife, complete with dowry, from the resort’s crew of pretty sales ladies. Lonely Chinese men unable to bag a mate due the government’s ‘one family-one child project’ which has resulted in a shortage of females should find the offer irresistible.

The property market in China is in freefall, with million of new-builds remaining unsold due to a sharp decline in demand and sales plummeting by over 20 per cent. As a result developers are breaking boundaries in order to find new ways to close a deal.

The website of Ecological Bay clearly asks those lured by the luxury pads whether they would like a young bride and her dowry, and provides full descriptions and tempting photographs of its sales ladies. The girls involved have been offered eight per cent commission and the chance to bag a wealthy husband, and a further incentive is the promise of a £6,000 payout to happy couples who are still happy and together after a year of marriage.